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...farmers' distress. But Tiwari says that more government intervention is needed to solve the real underlying problem: a global agricultural market rigged against the small tiller. While the costs of crucial inputs, like fertilizer, have been rising, global prices for cotton are being depressed to an artificially low level by U.S.-government subsidies for its cotton farmers - a one-two punch, he says, that makes profitable farming in Vidarbha practically impossible. "The input prices are set by someone else while the purchase prices are set by someone else," Tiwari says. "That's why the farmers are killing themselves." He wants...
...doctor's pay is not fixed in advance. Salaries are pegged so that they stay within 80% of the national average, but up to 20% of income is based on teams' achieving performance goals. If the cardiac group keeps its complication and readmission rates below a certain level, paychecks get fatter because costs decrease. Ditto for the pediatric orthopedic team, which must successfully treat kids for, say, spinal curvature without being too quick with the knife for those who don't need surgery or too slow for those who do. "We keep cash compensation flexible and incentivized," Steele says. "That...
...This is not an epidemiologic study, so we can’t comment on what’s happening at a biological level,” Rossi said. “Based on a few animal studies, it might have something to do with the spindle...
...called for the district to create a comprehensive plan to improve the educational climates in schools, including an anti-bullying strategy. Crucially, he has been the strongest supporter of an early childhood education center, which would provide programs to ensure that all children begin kindergarten on a level playing field...
...cuts will likely garner some level of popular support and allow the Obama administration to maintain an image of being tough on corporate excess. But they do not represent a long-term solution to a potentially recurring problem. Without long-term and thoughtful policy supporting these pay cuts, what’s past will likely be prologue. There are real and persistent problems in the current system, and if the current administration is genuinely interested in securing America against economic declines of this magnitude in the future, it must engage the problem with long-term regulatory focus in mind...